Evaluation and Economical Feasibility of Polymer-Assisted Surfactant Flooding for the Gullfaks Field, Norway

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-167

  Maldal, Trygve ^a   Gilje, Eimund ^a   Kristensen, Reidar ^a   Kårstad, Terje ^a   Nordbotten, Atle ^a   Schilling, B E R ^a   Vikane, Olav ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; POLYMER; RECOVERY TECHNIQUE; SURFACTANT;

FLOODING; POLYMER; RECOVERY; SURFACTANTS;

NORTH SEA, GULLFAKS FIELD;

EID: 0031696556     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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